best software for a compleate carputer

hey, well i finaly got all the kinks worked out of my soon to be carputer and was wondering what the best software to run would be...i'm running an amd k6-2 500mhz w/ 64meg of ram (i knew that that old e-machine could turn into something decent lol) right now it's got a Sound blaster live card (plans on staying there) an eithernet card, and a modem, it has adiquite (4meg) of onboard vid (hopes to one day upgrade from that to something an ati all-in-wonder) but my real question is would it be better to run a bar version of win98, ME or 2000? i have acces to all these and bootup time right now isn't a big deal i just want something solid that will be compatable w/ all the things i have plans for

i can see what he's doing he want's a simple 4x40 just to see what's playing at all times then he's gonna use the pioneer AVX-7000 for computer display in order to see the gps software i was thinking along the same lines as well just so that i can see what's playing at a glance and not have to mess with the display such as maximize winamp or have winamp running in the background while the gps software is running in fullscreen mode

besides most of my friends are to stupid to figure out that it's the same as a home pc only in a car so they would never figure out how to tell the name of the song otherwise but i think this could be good cause then nobody can mess with my song!

I have to agree with blkdragon6 here. With all that power and setup, he might as well skip 40x4 and go straight to TFT. Why do double work when u can just do it right the first time.

Well as far as software goes, i will recomend you use CobraI and when u are ready for a REAL setup, that is when u get ur TFT, then go to CobraII. Soon when i finish CobraIII then u can have both LCD and TFT running at the same time.

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Anyway, his original question was on software. Since bootup time isn't your priority I would go with a version of win98SE stripped down and running the win95 shell (see 98lite). Hey, now that I think about it, a friend of mine said that he can get win98 to run the 3.1 shell, he says it looks really funny nowadays. I know 3.1 is really stable, that'd be a trip to see an mp3car running win 3.1 shell!

I get a bootup of about 30-40 sec on my system similar to yours with WinMe tweaked around a bit. I tried win98 and winMe is DEFINITELLY better as far as bootup and shutdown time. As far as software I use n stuff i prefer to use a IR program like IRAssistant or PCremotecontrol... among many.

Irassistant works great for me, i set it up so i can play / switch songs in winamp while looking at gps screen and doign stuff like zooming in and out and start or stopping the GPS receiver. One of these days I will write a webpage and explain it better. But it's pretty simple just go to www.evation.com and look in the software page for the links.